Here’s something one of my grad students wrote over on the class blog:
I hope that the rest of my time as a student is as enriching as the last 2 semesters have been. I attribute the high quality of my experience to both the new material (new to me at least) that brings me to a new view of the world, and to the diversity of the students in the classroom. When we take a course on Shakespeare, the student group is genereally pretty homogenous. But this material, so relevant to various fields of study, is a great place to experience this wonderful cross-pollination (or maybe it is cross-contamination!) of ideas. Not only that, on some level, or in some area, we were all newbies. So there was less need to be the expert. We all had something to learn from each other.
It’s not every day I get that kind of feedback, and I’m grateful.
Posted by mgk at May 21, 2004 05:11 PMClass was a blast. I've posted my "Playing the Field" essay via my blog: http://www.edmondchang.com/668k/digitalplay.html
If you want it PDF, just let me know and I'll send it via email. Cheers!
Posted by: ED at May 22, 2004 06:48 PM | Link to CommentIf anyone wants to read mine, it's at http://www.cosanostra.net/~medusa/digstudies.html ... but I only got an A- in the class so I'm not sure how good it is. :P I certainly want to read what everyone said. The heterogeneity of the class was really a boon. (And The Bug has already started making the rounds of my programmer friends.)
Reading Ed's essay and my essay is pretty funny... makes it quite clear that Ed is a fun, smart, affable guy, whereas I am out to beat academia into the ground, even at the expense of work quality. I wonder whence this grudge against my supposedly voluntary profession?
Posted by: Jess at May 24, 2004 02:32 PM | Link to Comment